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KENWOOD HOUSE, HAMSPTEAD HEATH
KEATS HOUSE
Keats Grove Hampstead or Hampstead Heath Overground 020 7332 3868,
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
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March-Oct Tues-Sun 1-5pm; Nov-Feb Fri-Sun 1-5pm.£5.50.
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An elegant, whitewashed Regency double villa, Keats House is a shrine to Hampstead's
most lustrous figure. Inspired by the tranquillity of the area and by his passion for girl-next-
door Fanny Brawne (whose house is also part of the museum), Keats wrote some of his
most famous works here before leaving for Rome, where he died of consumption in 1821
aged just 25. The neat, rather staid interior contains books and letters, Fanny's engagement
ring and the four-poster bed in which the poet first coughed up blood.
2 WILLOW ROAD
Hampstead or Hampstead Heath Overground 020 7435 6166,
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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March-Nov
Wed-Sun 11am-5pm.£6.
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An unassuming red-brick terraced house built in the 1930s by the Hungarian-born architect
Ernö Goldfinger
(1902-87), 2 Willow Road gives a fascinating insight into the modernist
mindset. This was a state-of-the-art pad when Goldfinger moved in, and as he changed little
during the following fifty years, what you see today is a 1930s avant-garde dwelling pre-
served in aspic, a house at once both modern and old-fashioned. An added bonus is that the
